** IMPORTANT NOTICE ** 

Please be aware of the following steps prior to booking onto the course: 

Step 1 - Complete the following application form - Level 3 Certificate in Technical Support for Public Service Building Standards Application Form
Step 2 - The tutor will review and a coordinator will confirm course suitability 
Step 3 - Book onto the course 

The CIOB Level 3 Certificate in Technical Support for Public Service Building Standards is designed for building control administrative staff dealing with the building control function on a day to day basis. This qualification develops the learner’s knowledge and skills to process the workload of the building control team correctly in line with statutory timescales, delivery and performance standards. Students will also understand the importance of their role and how information is conveyed to users of the service.

All learning, lectures and assignments will take place via distance learning on the LABC Virtual Learning Environment. You will have access to the course on the VLE approximately one week before the course start date.

• For each unit, participants are required to complete an online assignment that is assessed on a pass/fail criteria. Assignments will need to be completed by the end of each Unit.
• We recommend a minimum 140 hours self study for this qualification.
• Entry Requirements: GCSE English and Maths or equivalent OR Relevant building control administration experience
• Progression to other qualifications: The Level 3 certificate programme provides the underpinning knowledge and understanding for entry to the Level 4 Diploma in Building Control Surveying. Higher Education providers may consider these qualifications for entry to appropriate degree programmes.

TIMETABLE

*timetables / assessments may be subject to change

STUDENT FEEDBACK

"I would just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to yourself and Richard for making the course as enjoyable as possible and being so supportive, I have just completed my first year in Building Control and I found the course really informative and I definitely learned a few things which I am now able to put into practice."  Beverley Glasgow, DBCP

CONTACT US

Please contact learning@labc.co.uk if you have any questions.

Take a look at some of the other courses LABC provides in the course brochures below.

*IMPORTANT NOTICE* Please make sure all steps have been completed before booking (these can be found at the top of this page).

Continual Professional Development (CPD) is a vital part of the registration of the profession going forward, both for individuals and for teams. The Registered Building Inspector (RBI) Code of Conduct will require individuals to maintain records of and provide evidence of their CPD. The Operational Standards Rules (OSRs) will require employers to make appropriate CPD available to their staff and keep records of this. This will potentially be expensive, time consuming and yet another burden on already stretched resources.

LABC has created a new monitoring and recording portal, myLABC, to help individual members and managers meet these new obligations.

All local authorities will, as part of their current subscription, continue to receive access to the Virtual Learning Environment and will be able to manually upload any CPD they undertake.

Members who elect to subscribe to myLABC will receive an individual log-in, a bespoke tailored calendar of CPD and events based on their work profile. RBI’s will also be able to identify personal training needs and skills gaps identified from their validation assessment (e.g. feedback from the BSCF) with all CPD itemised against the BICoF core competencies and work profile. myLABC will deliver monthly prompts about available resources, unlimited access to courses and learning material, and, perhaps most usefully, an automatic log of all CPD undertaken. This can then be used as evidence for other Competence Assessment Schemes as well as annual CPD returns for Professional Bodies. You’ll never have to remember, evidence, and upload a year’s worth of CPD records again.

Of most interest to managers, is a new dashboard of their surveyor’s learning activity. The VLE will help support performance appraisal and goal setting and automatically generate KPI data for the BSRs OSR Monitoring of teams. This will save many hours of work every year as well as the need to develop manual systems of recording and reporting.

The licence for full access to the system including monthly targeted CPD is £150 per surveyor per annum (£75 / half year) for surveyors in English and Welsh member authorities.

Annual subscriptions run from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. You can view our T&C's here.

If you have any questions about accessing myLABC please contact the team at mylabc@labc.co.uk. 

* IMPORTANT NOTICE *
Please be aware of the following steps prior to booking onto the course:
Step 1 - Complete the following application form - CIOB Application Form - Level 6 Fire Safety in Complex Buildings
Step 2 - The tutor will review and a coordinator will confirm course suitability
Step 3 - Book onto the course

We worked with accreditation bodies to develop a unique Level 6 qualification that explores the roles and responsibilities of those involved in ensuring the fire safety of a building from inception to demolition. We focus specifically on both existing and new buildings without being restricted exclusively by the definition of a higher risk building given in the Building Safety Act and associated regulations, and therefore consider a variety of increasingly complex buildings. 

This Level 6 qualification is a recognised pathway to independent competency validation. 

Lectures take place within the eleven teaching weeks we'll host an afternoon workshop where you'll discuss complex case studies with expert guest speakers and your peers.

It would be beneficial for you to attend all of the afternoon, and this is our recommendation as the opportunity to discuss and debate the subject of the day is invaluable; however, if you do miss any due to work commitments, you'll be able to catch up in your own time as all workshops will be recorded. There isn’t an exam for this qualification, you'll have a few weeks’ break following your last workshop, after which time your assignment will be due. In the unlikely event you refer on your first attempt at your assignment, you'll have two more attempts to pass.

This qualification requires the use of a wide range of sources to develop and expand your knowledge base and evidence your detailed understanding of the subject matter.

TIMETABLE

*timetables / assessments may be subject to change

STUDENT FEEDBACK

"The breadth of the course content has been good in enabling the provision of complex information in sensible blocks of learning."

"I have vastly increased my knowledge of fire safety over the last 11 weeks, this course was more than a refresher course I have learnt much more specific areas of fire safety. The weekly presentations were very informative and detailed from materials testing to firefighting processes and procedures, most of which I was not knowledgeable about at the start of the course. The weekly specialist speakers were very informative and presented their content well. The course was very intensive taking a lot of home time working, difficult to do when we are all fully employed with busy weekly workloads. But the course was very advantageous for the preparation of the Specialist surveyor validation exam. The website site set up was very impressive and user friendly in my view including to be able to return to the specific areas of course content is very beneficial to recap specific areas of knowledge. This is most useful for work and for the upcoming validation exams. All in all Trevor delivered the course very well it was a success and very beneficial to a qualified building control surveyor."

"Thanks Trevor and all, has really helped me to feel more confident in my approach."

"The course has expanded my knowledge of ADB and the BS 999 range of documents. Very informative course which has greatly improved my fire safety knowledge and experience to progress in the workplace." 

"Overall, to date, I am extremely pleased to have had the opportunity to be on the course and it is definitely a worthwhile exercise and I wish this had been available to me years ago."

CONTACT US

Please contact learning@labc.co.uk if you have any questions.

Take a look at some of the other courses LABC provides in the course brochures below.

*IMPORTANT NOTICE* Please make sure all steps have been completed before booking (these can be found at the top of this page)